How exactly are Americans paying for it when CPI is at it's lowest since Feb. 2021 and tariffs have been in effect to some capacity for over 2 months now?
You also seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding on how tariffs work. They aren't always tax on the consumer, this is like a grade 5 level understanding of economics. Companies have to balance whether passing costs onto the consumer will lose them more in the long term than eating the costs themselves. If a company is already running 100% profit margins and tariffs cause them to run 70% profit margins, they are still incentivized to do business in the US, even if they still make less money than before. If however increasing their costs reduces their consumer base by half, then in some cases it would make more sense to either balance the cost increases with the consumers and let it eat into profits, improve efficiency of their company to offset the increases, etc. There are many levers that companies can use to offset the tariff increases.
For example. Mercedes-Benz have announced they will
not increase the cost on consumers and absorb the costs and relocate manufacturing to Alabama to avoid the tariffs:
www.mercedesbenzofdenver.com
So not only is there no cost increase, there's also more manufacturing being done in America. I was told this couldn't and wouldn't happen, yet here we are.
A lot of people don't enjoy having lots of tourists in their area. So it's a win if they have less tourists in their area. Maybe you don't talk to people or hear about people's stories.
I spent literally 30 seconds looking up your post history. You can go to the top right, hit search, and then search a term, like "AirBnB" and a member, like "HomeCheese", and get posts that contain that word from that member. It took 16 characters of typing and four mouse clicks. I know that for you that is a lot of research to do, but to convince people like yourself of anything I usually have to show them that they are being hypocritical.
I know you aren't going to argue about AirBnB, it's literally the whole point and you can't argue it since I just showed you agreeing with my point. That's the only way to get to people like yourself, who are actually in a cult.
AirBnB isn't the root issue. If AirBnB gets removed, there will be others that take it's place. It's tourism that's the root issue that causes demand for short term rentals. People who travel to other places need a place to stay. They need short term rentals. When there is too much tourism, like in a place like Portugal, it causes it's own populace to not be able to afford to stay, as people buy short term rentals to accommodate the tourists. And AirBnB isn't the only thing that tourists compete on with the local populace. There's infrastructure, goods and services, traffic, etc.
